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Gov. Rick Perry indicted for abuse of power for carrying out threat [W:613/629]

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PirateMk1 said:
The reason the Democrats get away with this is there is NO reprisal from the Republicans. If they don't want this crap to happen to them then they need start returning the favor in spades and do it with gusto. Put a couple of Democrat heads on sticks and tell the Democrats if they wish to continue down the road of political destruction by indictment they will be happy to oblige them.
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Are you saying that Democrats don't get indicted?
 
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polgara said:
Good Sunday morning, CJ. :2wave: We have rain and cold...again!

From what I have read, she is refusing to resign because Perry will appoint a *gasp* Republican to take her place, which is SOP - a Democrat governor would do the same thing for his party. I don't know what the current political makeup of the department is, but I gather it is mostly Democrat. Is one Republican voice that scary to her? My question is what her sentencing involved. If she is expected to serve time in jail, how does that benefit anyone? And is there no way to remove an elected official under Texas law if they won't resign?
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Lehmberg was arrested in April of 2013 and served 20 days of a 45-day sentence in jail.
 
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Thorgasm said:
Are you saying that Democrats don't get indicted?
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Not as result a purely political conduct, no they don't. The Democrats are starting down a road the results of which would be unpleasant for all involved. Using the prosecutors office as a political weapon opens a can of worms that shouldn't be opened.
 
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j-mac said:
Has Cuomo been indicted yet?
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Don Siegelman was.
 
Re: Gov. Rick Perry indicted for abuse of power for carrying out threat to veto prose

PirateMk1 said:
Not as result a purely political conduct, no they don't. The Democrats are starting down a road the results of which would be unpleasant for all involved. Using the prosecutors office as a political weapon opens a can of worms that shouldn't be opened.
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Who was the Special Prosecutor appointed by?
 
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nota bene said:
Lehmberg was arrested in April of 2013 and served 20 days of a 45-day sentence in jail.
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Thanks for the info. No wonder Perry took the position he did. So in retaliation, they decided to accuse him of abuse of power, completely ignoring what she did? It figures! :thumbdown:

Greetings, nota bene. :2wave:
 
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Conservative said:
The money for that office doesn't come from the county, it comes from the state!! If you live in TX you are paying for that office.
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Again the question isn't does the governor have the right to veto, it was the resignation part that got him into trouble. Why didn't Perry just veto the monies... why all the resignation drama?
 
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voyager1 said:
Again the question isn't does the governor have the right to veto, it was the resignation part that got him into trouble. Why didn't Perry just veto the monies... why all the resignation drama?
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Perry gave her the chance to resign and when she didn't he did veto the money
 
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CanadaJohn said:
If I worked in Washington with that crowd and the dolt in the Oval Office, I'd be crying every day.
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Of course you would. You're Canadian.
 
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Geoist said:
I had to laugh when I saw that too. 2016 presidential hopeful? Did everyone already forget the total flop that was his candidacy?
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But he wears dark rimmed glasses now, he must be smarter.

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year2late said:
But he wears dark rimmed glasses now, he must be smarter.

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It doesn't take much to be smarter than the clown in the WH right now, but again I forgot Progressives react to appearance whereas actual results don't matter. What other reason could there be to only think with their heart rather than their brain?
 
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year2late said:
But he wears dark rimmed glasses now, he must be smarter.

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It doesn't take much to be smarter than the clown in the WH right now, but again I forgot Progressives react to appearance whereas actual results don't matter. What other reason could there be to only think with their heart rather than their brain?
 
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polgara said:
Thanks for the info. No wonder Perry took the position he did. [...]
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The position of using his power as an elected official to try to force another elected official to resign?

How is that position not an abuse of authority?
 
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Karl said:
The position of using his power as an elected official to try to force another elected official to resign?

How is that position not an abuse of authority?
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Read the entire thread and then you will get your answer. A Governor has veto authority for whatever reason he wants including withholding taxpayer money to a DA that broke the law and put actual innocent people at risk. The ignorance of the left is staggering and very selective especially with the clown in the WH and even the clown as Governor of NY
 
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Conservative said:
Perry gave her the chance to resign and when she didn't he did veto the money
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That is the point. He should have just cut the funding without all the resignation fanfare.
 
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Karl said:
The position of using his power as an elected official to try to force another elected official to resign?

How is that position not an abuse of authority?
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He could have simply took away the funding with a veto without strings attached - no muss no fuss. He apparently wanted to go another route.
 
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polgara said:
Good Sunday morning, CJ. :2wave: We have rain and cold...again!

From what I have read, she is refusing to resign because Perry will appoint a *gasp* Republican to take her place, which is SOP - a Democrat governor would do the same thing for his party. I don't know what the current political makeup of the department is, but I gather it is mostly Democrat. Is one Republican voice that scary to her? My question is what her sentencing involved. If she is expected to serve time in jail, how does that benefit anyone? And is there no way to remove an elected official under Texas law if they won't resign?
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Good morning Lady P. - nice here today, but I like it cool, and if the long term forecast is correct, you should have 90s coming your way by Tuesday.

As for the sentence, I understand she's already served 42 days in jail - not sure if she got out early or that was the entirety of the sentence - seems light to me, considering her level of inebriation and her conduct after the fact.
 
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Fenton said:
Wow.......

Me ? Deflection ?

You just absolutely ignored her arrest, the VIDEO of her arrest and the fact she was arrested for driving with a blood alcohol level 3 times the legal limit.

You ignored Perry's stated reason so you could invent some partisan BS hypothetical.

Perry didn't act before because she hadn't been busted for driving drunk yet, and making a complete ass of herself.

Are you sure you don't work for Travis County ?
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What's puzzling is why Democrats would support this behavior. It seems a (D) after a name is more important than the character and substance of the candidate.
 
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voyager1 said:
That is the point. He should have just cut the funding without all the resignation fanfare.
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So, in other words, he should act like a two-faced liberal and not be honest with the voting public about what he's doing - is that it?
 
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What was the vote in the legislature to override the veto?
 
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year2late said:
He could have simply took away the funding with a veto without strings attached - no muss no fuss. He apparently wanted to go another route.
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Niether " route ' broke the law.

He has the authority to veto and has the authority to discuss his reasoning BEFORE his Veto.

This is all trumped up BS by a scunmy Liberal DA
 
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Grant said:
What's puzzling is why Democrats would support this behavior. It seems a (D) after a name is more important than the character and substance of the candidate.
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The end justifies the means in Liberal LaLa land.

Hell be acquitted and they'll have a mug shot, thats all they are about
 
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Conservative said:
The money for that office doesn't come from the county, it comes from the state!! If you live in TX you are paying for that office.
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The Travis County 2013 budget shows ~$17 million allocated for the District Attorney's office, and it shows that the vast majority of their revenue is from local (city/county) sources[SUP][1][/SUP].

The $7.5 million of state money that Perry vetoed was for a state-funded Public Integrity Unit, a subset of the DA's office (and I presume in addition to the ~$17 million budgeted from the county).

Beware of where you get your information, folks . . . .

However, the source of the money is irrelevant with respect to the abuse of power involved in withholding it in order to force a resignation outside of the proper lawful channels, so the gentleman's observation quoted above is a red herring intended to divert from the issue at hand.


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1. http://www.co.travis.tx.us/planning_budget/fy13/fy13_BudgetInBrief.pdf
 
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